English teacher yr 7 advice

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Hi I'm a secondary English teacher looking for a new year 7 reader...any suggestions? Thanks x

I am David, private peaceful, a wizard of earthsea, stone cold?

Osbert the Avenger!

Fat Boy Swim. Wonderful novel that has it all - bullying, family stuff, food / over eating / exercise.

Skellig? Holes?

Millions?

Crowfield Curse, The Spook's Apprentice, Cosmic

Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman!

A Monster Calls if your group is fairly mature.

Two Weeks with the Queen.

Feather Boy.

With Year 6, I have done:
Eleven (They loved that one. It's about 9/11.)
The Giver (My class were quite grown up and they really enjoyed that in term 6.)

Once by Morris Gleitzman is amazing. Might be worth a go.

Skellig is good to teach but it's been done so many times... we've done Kensuke's Kingdom though Private Peaceful is so much better.

Great thanks everyone for the ideas. Already done some of them but plenty to look at 😊

We've introduced After Tomorrow with Year 8 this year - great book. It kind of flips the refugee crisis on its head and imagines that British people are having to flee across the channel and live in camps in France. I think it would be okay for Year 7 but you might want to give it a read to check.

Along the same lines, Oranges in No-Mans Land is shorter and thought provoking. Makes you think about who draws the lines, why, etc.